The Things he does with his Hands(Forge RP)

[Valik]

Valik began the day like he did many days, looking at a tissue sample under a microscope. In all honesty, biology was not Valik’s speciality, he much preferred physics, engineering, and the more physical sciences, but that wasn’t to say he wasn’t one of the best biologists in the Empire, he just wasn’t as good a biologist as he was a physicist. Today however, he wasn’t exploring the capabilities of gene splicing or organelle analysis, he was looking at nanites, thought they should honestly be called femtites if one wanted to accurately portray their size.

Sadly, Valik only had one blood sample to work with, and that was the blood of the Omni-controlled Grand Vizier. The Grand Vizier himself was given to the Faleen Radon Mont, as Valik didn’t believe he could achieve the same amount of work Valik could with such little material. Valik was glad to be on a Dalek-Class Imperial Frigate, complete with a lab for Valik to work. Valik was also given a squad of other scientists to work with, but he dismissed them all and told them to take the day, and the week off. He needed no such help from their vastly inferior intellects. Valik had discovered that the nanites didn’t need to congregate or form objects when in a body. He wondered if the nanites could infect singularly, or if they needed a certain number of nanites per body weight, or perhaps intellectual strength, in order to override typical organic logic. There was no way to tell with merely a blood sample, and he doubted the mental interference was strong enough to measure conventionally even if he did have the Grand Vizier. Still, he needed to use his opportunity for something.

Valik took a small ion ray and blasted it into the petri dish, for only a second. When he looked at the petri dish he noticed that the nanites in the area shot stopped working. That was good, meant they didn’t have any unconventional defenses. For now the best solution to fighting the nanites seemed to be to create an ion or EMP weapon, Force Lightning would probably only overload the nanites on the top layers of the droids, wouldn’t be practical for destroying nanites infecting humans. The military could switch weapons easily enough . . . no, it was Force Users that had to significantly change their fighting style or detriment. But how to create a weapon a Force User would use naturally? Most Sith only used a saber, telekinesis, and some lightning . . . Lightning . . . Electricity. Power. Energy. Conversion.

But how to do it? Converting electric energy from one form to another was easy enough, but how to harness it in the first place?

 

[Valik]

As usual, the solutions to Valik's problem was simplicity itself, at least after the fact. Metal alchemized through Sith Magic had a known property of absorbing Force Lightning. Normally this property was used as a defensive measure against other's Force Lightning, but there was no reason he couldn't hook up a couple wires to it.

So Valik spent the next three hours alchemizing five needles. They needed to be perfect, built not for damage or protection but pure lightning absorptionm, so it took more time and strain than normal. The needle design was to be stabbed into the users hands, to capture any lightning generated by the Sith before it left his hands, reducing the amount of energy wasted.

After Valik completed the needles he carefully stuck them into the insulation of a wire, then hooked the wire up to a bulb. Valik took a step back and then shot his own force lightning into the needle. The bulb began to glow, and Valik smiled. His plan would work.

 

[Valik]

Valik knew his alchemized needles plan worked, so he began taking measurements of his hands, the length of the fingers, the circumference of his fingers, the dimensions and thickness of his palm, everything.

After Valik completed his measurements he began sketching the blueprints of his device. Duraplast outerlayer to protect the circuitry from external forces, Sith alchemized needles connected to wires, connected to an electric-ion energy converter, connected to an ion energy emitter, all covered by a light underlay intended to protect the user from any possible electric discharge.

Once he had completed his schematic he sent the blueprints to engineering. Tomorrow they would send him the parts he needed, but Valik himself was done for the night. It had been an exhausting night.

 

[Valik]

After Valik awoke he headed to his lab on the ship and waited for Engineering to send him the parts he requested. They were supposed to be on his desk at 0800, yet here he was at 0807 and the parts still weren’t here. Tick-tock tick-tock, time went on and still no parts. Finally at 0826 someone finally showed up.

“We have readied the parts to your specifications Dr. Valik sir.” A man from engineering arrived with a box of duraplast, wires, converters, emitters, and insulators set to his specifications. They could have built it too if Valik ordered, as he had already made the Sith Alchemized needles himself, but Valik enjoyed constructing his own creations at least once before letting the machines handle all of the work.

“Yes it seems you have. And you must be the volunteer they sent.” Valik said with an oddly wry smile on his face.

“Volunteer? Dr. Valik, I was not informed about-“

“Excellent. Please fetch me a hydrospanner.” Valik said as he took the box and put it on a nearby table. As he turned and saw the man still there, too afraid to leave Valik and induce his wrath, but also too afraid to stay and become subject to Valik’s notorious experiments. “You know, some might consider a lack of swiftness in one’s task as a sign of disobedience. Do you the penalty for disobedience in the Empire?” Valik said softly, prompting the man to retrieve the hydro spanner. “That’s better.” Valik said with a soft tone, almost as if he were talking to a pet and not a man.

Valik fused and bolted his gauntlet together for the next couple of hours, delicately wrapping wires and attaching them to nodes and then covering them with insulation. Hooking the converter to the emitter, the emitter to the outer shell, the outer shell to the gears which impaled the Sith needles into the user’s fingers, and so on and so forth. The engineer served merely to fetch him tools, and feed his hubris as the man’s fear and worry were so think in the Force Valik could almost taste it. After completing the gauntlet he put it on his left hand, and winced as the needle were shoved into his finger tips.

“I only have one more job for you.” Valik said as he placed his non-gloved hand on the back of his new test subject. “Into the tank.” Valik said and motioned towards an airtight tube, used to study victims of particularly contagious diseases. The man slowly walked forward, and a sense of acceptance emerged around him. He knew his fate would be gruesome. The man stood in the tank at full attention, and Valik motioned him to stay there, then retrieved his blood sample of the Grand Vizier, brought it over, and threw it on the man’s face then sealed the tank. Now he had to wait, and see what the nanites would do.

 

[Valik]

Valik scanned the man periodically every fifteen minutes for the next couple of hours. Finally after three hours the man's body temperature was a full 315 kelvin, four and half more than usual. The man's health improved, the MRI's showed more developed brain activity, the man's iron content increased dramatically. The nanite seemed to increase his overall productivity by around 7%, and this was only after three hours. But Valik wasn't interested in how efficient the nanites made organics, or how quickly they managed to take over the man. He was only interested in how he could kill them.

"Your plan won't work you know." The nanite infested man finally spoke something that wasn't a cowardly drivel in fear of Valik. It was a shocking change of pace, and evidence that Omni's control had come full circle. "Omni is the harbinger of our evolution. You will ascend or die. Everyone will ascend or die." The man continued, unafraid and content to stick in his cage and merely speak with Valik. Valik however, was not going to merely sit around and talk with the controlled man. It was time to test his invention.

"Perhaps if I allow Omni to live." Valik began, then backed up away from the tank and took a position of readiness. "In a few millennium, he could evolve into me." Valik said then opened the tank with the press of a button, then poured lightning from his hands. The lightning was absorbed by the wires, converted into ion energy, then blasted at the man. Valik could feel the heat from the energy transfer resounding around his gauntlet, but he did not care. He needed to see what he could do to an infected man.

The subject was pushed back into his tank, with the Force of course to avoid contact, and then studied for the next few hours. Initially the nanites seemed completely removed, but as time went on it became clear that while Valik's gauntlet had killed most of the nanites, it had not killed all of them. Valik could continue blasting the man periodically, but ion emission had dangerous properties, and it would be about as risky as chemotherapy was in the dark ages. Valik remained content to let the nanites take over him, take a few blood and tissue samples and store them in a compartment in his lightsaber, then kill the man and incinerate the body. He knew his invention worked, and he knew he could remove nanites from organics, albeit slowly and riskily, and for now Valik was satisfied with his invention, after all, the Summit was in but a few hours.